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Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Wired Campus: Students at U. of Southern California Develop Summer-Education Site - Chronicle.com

Wired Campus: Students at U. of Southern California Develop Summer-Education Site - Chronicle.com

"When the Los Angeles Unified School District announced at the end of May that it planned to cancel summer school, the latest result of California’s multibillion-dollar cuts to education, it estimated 225,000 students would be without the courses they need to stay at grade level or get ahead.

Now some of those students are taking advantage of an alternative to summer school on the Web — SOS Classroom, a collection of free educational Web sites, videos, and games. Educators and others submit material to be considered for the collection using Web 2.0 tools, and the materials are compiled by students in an advanced writing course at the University of Southern California."

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